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Dr. Lauren E. Roberts

DR. LAUREN E. ROBERTS

Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Foot & Ankle Surgery | General Trauma

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Clinical Assistant Professor | Dept. of Orthopaedics, UBC

Associate Director UGME | Dept. of Orthopaedics, UBC

Medical Education Site Lead, Orthopaedics | Burnaby Hospital 

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ABOUT DR. ROBERTS

Dr. Lauren E. Roberts is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a subspecialty in Foot & Ankle Surgery.  She completed her Fellowship in Foot & Ankle Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City in 2018. Her practice in Burnaby, British Columbia consists of Elective Foot and Ankle Surgery and General Orthopaedic Trauma.  Dr. Roberts is a member of UBC Faculty and is active as an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Distal Extremities. She is the Medical Student Education Site lead for Burnaby Hospital. 

 

Dr. Roberts attended Acadia University where she completed her Bachelors of Kinesiology with a focus on Athletic Therapy followed by her Master’s of Science in Kinesiology at the University of Ottawa.   She completed her Medical School training at McMaster University in 2012 after which she began her Orthopaedic Residency training at the University of British Columbia.  She completed her residency and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2017.  

 

Dr. Roberts provides emergency and fracture care for injuries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, foot and ankle through the Burnaby Hospital Emergency Department.  This includes non-operative care including casting/bracing treatments and injections as well as acute fracture/injury surgery.   Her primary Elective Surgical practice offers comprehensive Elective Foot and Ankle care for both adolescent and adult patients for all Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle concerns including but not limited to the following:

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Trauma:  Fractures, ligament injuries and tendon tears. This includes acute injuries or chronic problems arising from these issues. 

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Deformities: Bunions, hammertoes (and other small toe deformities), flatfoot and cavus (high arch) deformities.

 

Sports injuries:  Acute and chronic ankle sprains (medial and lateral instability),  achilles ruptures, tendinopathy and osteochondral lesions.  

 

Arthritis:  Midfoot and hindfoot arthritis as well as Hallux Rigidis (fusion and replacement) and Ankle arthritis (fusion and replacement) .

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Other:  This includes neuromas, plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia and any other issue not mentioned above related to the foot and ankle. 

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